Sauron makes a valid point
― http://porno (DJP), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
all we are is rice paper puppies
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-09-01-onemonth-marvel01-ST_N.htm
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
okay I can't deal with that
― http://porno (DJP), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
it's on marvel unlimited! gonna read it real quick.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
surprise! it's remender in hateful and weird mode! and the purple man shows up at the end of the first issue. I will be stopping now.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/sienkiewicz-calls-out-fox-over-x-men-apocalypse-dazzler-art-credit
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link
Right now, my favorite Marvel book is Doctor Strange
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Wednesday, January 13, 2016 9:03 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just started on this (copped the "Timely Comics" three-issues-in-one deal for $1) and, WOW.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
I think Aaron's easily the best staff writer at Marvel right now, but I find Strange kind of unreadable - maybe it's the art? Thor is a bit offgame too, compared to the 2012-5 stretch, but it's still fun.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
I was a little chagrined about Aaron's move to Marvel because I wasn't crazy about some of his earlier stuff, but I have to admit he's really been knocking it out of the park.
― Neither F.I.S.T. Nor Fletch (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
Aaron's first year on Thor - it's one long story - is my fave comic of the past few years. Just this super fun, super-casual epic with no particular continuity. I kind of wish he'd go back to that style with the new Thor.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
Was that the one with the Godkiller arc?
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
I'm a sucker for Chris Bachalo tho, especially having come up on his Shade the Changing Man.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Vision is _really_ good btw.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 15 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Keep hearing good things about it. Will it make sense if you have no idea of current marvel universe, or is it all avengers linked?
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
The issues I read were almost completely isolated from the rest of the Marvel U
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
they are and thank god. basically you can walk in knowing nothing and it's fine.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Just read the first twos use, they're really fun! Robots arguing about grammar. So far I kind of prefer fhe quotidian stuff to the action stuff, but book's gotta have a plot I guess.
I get why people were interested In him doing Batman now - this seems a lot better, though?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 07:21 (seven years ago) link
*two issues
batman curdled on the third issue for me tbh10 issues into vision and 9 into sheriff of babylon and they're both just about the best comix coming out right now on a monthly basis for my moneytom king has a very specific style and i like it a lot.his run on vision ends at issue 12http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/sheriff-of-babylon-comic-book-iraq-war.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
imo Omega Men is the DC title written by Tom King to go by, not this Batman run that just started. Like Vision, it's divorced enough from continuity and editorial direction to be its own thing.
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Omega Men felt a little compressed at the end - like editorial told him he had to wrap it up before Rebirth - but until the last few issues its the best thing DC has done since Dial H.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
we're all omega men now
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
It was cancelled at 7 then given another 5 issues due to fan outcry.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
man DC really has no clue what's good
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't get into Omega Men but I keep hearing good things. Should I try again and persist? I also couldn't get into Dial H, despite wanting to...
I think Tom King was also involved in Grayson, which I enjoyed.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
The Omega Men series had an issue #0 I missed on first reading. It sets the stage for the first act, which is otherwise a little muddled although it's doing the work of setting up the basis for the rest of the series. The main plot turn is when their abductee, Kyle Raynor, finally sees why the group is fighting together, despite their different origins.
The actual rebellion/battle would have probably gone on much longer had the series continued, and expanded on the denouement, which nevertheless ends up with the gray moral resolution that the series deserves
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
i agree about omega men being "compressed"; it's still notably better than about 95% of what DC has put out in the past five years.i get the sense he really barely has any interest in writing batman but it pays super well and sells books.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Such a boring character for writers. I'd do it in a second of course, but ugh.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
from King's Ringer interview:
“Batman is its own beast,” King said. “It’s weird. I write these very thinky comics where there’s no hero. Sheriff doesn’t have a hero; no one at the end of it is gonna be like: ‘Yay! I triumphed and solved terrorism!’ Vision, at the end, it’s set up as a tragedy and I know how it ends, it’s tragic. What Batman is, is a story about a hero triumphant. The best thing Batman can do with me is to be a good comic that takes people a little bit outside of their day, where they can read and be like, ‘Holy shit!’ That gives you a jolt of pleasure. I’m not trying with Batman to be like, ‘OK, here I want to comment on the world.’ I want to make Die Hard.”
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
pretty sure it's being guided by editorial to use a bunch of characters and plot devices familiar with their movie and tv properties. as the gotham tv show season featuring hugo strange ends and the suicide squad movie comes out, we get batman dealing with... hugo strange and amanda waller
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
what do you mean by morrison-isms?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
darkgrimgritty played through a stream of consciousness filter plus rapid fire mamet dialogue
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
All respect, but that's the sort of misleading if not inaccurate description of Morrison I'd read in like USA Today
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah, that is not really Morrison, imo
I thought you'd at least throw in the two or three speech vocalisms he spells out (*tch* or whatever) and uses every series
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
It's 'tt'. Also 'UUUUIIIIIII' (scream emitting from otherworldly creatures).
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
thanks, I was going to google for examples at work but I knew you'd have my back :)
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Of course. It's one of the like four extremely niche and generally pointless things I'm good for.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
i'm a fan of nnnnnaaaaaaAAAAAAAiiiii myself.intelligent men differ but the psycho pirate stuff and ms. gotham doing the "I'm scared" bit put me in the mind of morrison. I've read my share of it!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
I believe that you have! That description doesn't do him justice, though (e.g. his employment of darkgrimgritty is almost always in the service of some loftier comment, rapid fire Mamet dialogue is way more Bendis than Morrison).
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Trying too hard to be cool dialogue, I'll give you.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
well, less mamet of the Bendis variety
"What did he tell you""the boss""no the other guy""what""of course the boss""well than just say the boss then""I gotta talk the way you want me to?""just say the boss"
"i tried to save gotham""I know""But it just... You can't. You just can't""I know""Good bye batman""Good bye gotham"KBAMMMM"hmmm"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
as for the "loftier comment", i am not of the school that gives morrison carte blanche. i suppose king's point in this first run is that death changes a man, changes.... A CITY and that minus the meta is not much shallower than much of what I've read of GM as of late
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
does anyone give morrison carte blanche? c'mon man everyone has good and bad work
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
i find GMs stuff has a tendency to be overrated but i'm aware i'm in the minority in that for this board.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
I'd just like to rep for aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
^^^ thanking u for screen name
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Haha, you're welcome
Anyway I haven't seen folks mention the Waid/Samnee Black Widow, which just finished a super fun first six issues, and features lots of panels like this:
http://i.imgur.com/PQHmsOW.jpg
Also it's one of the few comics that reads really well on the app with Guided View - maybe better than in print, even
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
I think of "tt" as being something Morrison had Batman say - where else has he flogged it?
― Shakey δσς (sic), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
I remember 'hh' (impatient sigh, presumably) being used for Batman.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link